Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, NBC's Ali Vitali told co-host Mika Brzezinski that Donald Trump is facing a completely different landscape than when he battled Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election now that it appears he will face Vice President Kamala Harris.
With Harris now likely to be the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden discontinued his campaign, Vitali suggested the VP has in hand a set of "unique weapons" she can bring to bear that Clinton did not have at her disposal.
Referring to a piece she wrote for NBC, she explained, "She is a different candidate watching her the last few days than when I covered her in 2019 and 2020 and certainly after her first year in the white house, many people are paying attention to that."
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"But I also think it's really important to just point out the ways in which the landscape has changed," she elaborated. "I think the way that we talk about not just women being elected in 2018 and the Dobbs decision in 2022, but most of the experts and leaders I spoke to for this piece said you just look at a place like Michigan where it is mostly women elected throughout the upper ranks of leadership in that state, starting and stemming from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. That tells a larger story to people that women can win when they run."
"Voters just have to vote for them and I think that that is a really important proof point as we talk about Harris as not just a historic candidate, which she is, but someone who can just seem to be electable," she added.
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